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“Well, you should stuff yourself too full or else you won’t be able to eat lunch or supper. I have a little luncheon with my friends at the New Orleans Café on 52nd and we will be at the Museum of African Art until three, so you’ll have to be on your own for midday, unless you can find one of your little…friends. But for supper, I have a fabulous little get-together with a few of my girlfriends and their families. You remember Ella Broils? And Joan Lyeman? Well, we’ll all be at the Broils house for dinner tonight and you should expect it to be delicious, because you remember Elvira is a marvelous—why aren’t you eating, Robert Jonathan? I never told you not to eat.”